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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1022, 11 January 1879, Page 2

Hamilton' Ooxtixoe.vt. — The usual monthly meeting- of. the membsrs of the Hamilton. Contingent, Volunteer Cavalry, , will be held, this evening', at 1J 13 Commercial Hotel, when the business of ' olecting officer.*, and considering the ad- ' visability of forming 1 a band, m connection with the troop, will be gone into. Firing for shooting club prizes will take place this morning. ■'The ; exten.dud • time fqr ; receiving tenders ,for ihe'v erection' of jtwo> cdttages} at Cambridge, expires to-day. Plans and specifications may be seen on application te the architect, Mr D. Richardson. Tenders for tlie erection of a four roomed house, labor only, at Tamahere, for Mr C. C. Wood, will be received until noon of the loth inst. Tenders for the erection of a bridge near Stokes farm, on the Whatawhata road, and for a culvert, brick or concrete, over the creek near the Kiwi Mills, on the Ohaupo-Eamilton road, will be received by the Chairman of the Hamilton Highway Board, till noon of to-day. Tenders for ploughing- and harrowing roads, m. suctions, m the Tuhikaramea district, must be Hent m to the Chairman, not later than to-day. Hamilton and Whatawhata Road. — Tenders for work and cuttings on the above -road, will be received by the Chairman of the Newcastle District Board, until Thui'sday, the 23rd inst. Alterations and Additions are about to be made to the Waikato County Couucil Chambers, at Hamilton, and tenders for performing the same, and for removing the present chambers to another site, will bu received by Mr T. H. White, until noon of Friday next. Ohattpo Bhkep Fair. — Buckland's Ohaupo Sheep Fair will be held ou Wednesday next, and Vie Cambridge Fair on tho -ifcli proximo. For the Ohaupo sale, jlifure is already a largcrnumbev of entries, uniupvisj.ug Lincoln rams, from tho Hocks of MaclGan Co.,' Messrs D. McNicooll, S. T. Seddon, C. J\ Storey und the Messrs Uoodfellow, also, an imported ram, tho property of Mr' H. Buttle Messrs Hunter & Nolax will hold (heir Waikato Sheep Fair, at the Ohaupo Yards, ori Thursday next, immediately after the cattle sale. Intending vendors arc requested to communicate at once, either' with. the. auctioneers, ' or with Mr Geo; Edgoumbc, at Hamilton. 1,0.0.F;', M.U., A.D.— A special general meeting, of the Loyal Duke of Cambridge I Lodge, No. 5532, will be held on the 11th insj;,, at the Lodge-room, Cambridge., PotfOPAi?, the ringleader of the party on strike who incited their fellow workmen to j >ia iv the Strifeo, pader thrifts of v.olrtnce, has been arr/et^ed ia Auck-laa-t, and remanded to Hsuniltori, T«B Bey, David Bruce will preach at Trinity Church, Cambridge, to-morrow at both morning and evening eorvioes.

The Oluiupo Live Stoc'c Sale will be held on Tuesday next, when Mr Buckliiiid, amongst other cuttle, will disposo of the horses, cows, imd young stock, the property of Mr Archibald Wallace, who has leased hirj farm ut Ohaupo. Mb J. S. Buckl.vnd's CifajLbadgG Horse Sale takes place to-day, } ijron. a number of useful htM&b, bruu^Sj^^erland^^iu Napier, seMtSciJ hgr Mr B KiniKraf. —AbMlhe inefling d|||t'ho < Auckland^i'Vaa^Mjaud.s .fi^ard, liejla. ory Thursday, "ft^pls resolvipFto grant ais applicatiou for a small piece of land, on which to ereot a public hall and library at this place. Raglan xsd Waiva. Road.— Work on the Waipa aiid Raglan road ! was recoirimenced, m earnest, on Tuesday last, audj; yesterday, Mr'T. (t.' Sancles proceeded: from Hamilton, to lay t oft' tlie work on tho continuation of this road from Raglan to Ao tea, which will be. commenced, with native labour, oh Monday or Tuesdaynext. The Raglan-Aotea road will open up a fine biookof agnoiiltiiral land for settlement. Wr understand that Mr Thomas Macffarlane has been appointed a Commissioner, by the Gb^eriiment, to enquire iuto the legality of tho expenditure on works outside the district; of tho part share of the Waikato Oounty • subsidy claimed by the Borough of Hamilton on account of the late East Hamilton Highway Board.- Ah official .-, notification of the above has been forwarded to both the Borougb and Waikato Oounty Council. Tub tesders 1 for the construction of» the Volunteer Hall, in'Jfciarailtoh;* were opened on Thursday, but were found to considerably . exceed the architect's estimate of £1000, the lowest being that qf.MrTliQrp, £1,07Q. . JNo^ender has been accepted! 3 ' „'l . ' ' ■ ■ ,*. •>:.'>.< .■■■••, .-■-: ■ „'-. : : : ;•.-• .■;■•:'■ .- ■- ■: A^nareow, escape was experienced, on Thursday by a little boy, some eight years old, travelling by railway from Auckland, to Hamilton. His father was m the smoking carriage, and the boy with others ■ m another ' compartment, when just as the train reached Te Rapa the boy's hat blew off, and, without hesitation — the train going at full speed, — the. lad... jumped . after,, it. A cry. was raided m "th'o train' that somebody had fallen out, and the' engine was stopped. The lad was then seen, none the .worse for his escapade, racing along the line after the train. He was taken m again, quite uninjured, but somewhat frightened.